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DIPIR project presentation at iConference in Toronto, Thursday, 9 February 2001, 1:30 – 3:00 p.m.

Morgan Daniels, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan and member of the DIPIR research team, will present “Managing fixity and fluidity in data repositories.”

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New Video: "Reconfiguring Library Boundaries"

In this 43-minute video, Lorcan Dempsey talks about how libraries are changing in the network environment, how they are organizing their services and how they are relating to other services in a Webscale world.

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New Podcast: "The Power of Raised Expectations"

In this 21-minute interview, Senior Program Officer Roy Tennant talks with David Lankes, a professor and Dean’s Scholar for the New Librarianship at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies, the director of the library science program for th…

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Toward an E-library Ecosystem: Public Libraries Will Screw Themselves if They Don’t Learn from Amazon’s Comprehensive "Seamless" Approach

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January 2, 2012
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Going the distance. TeleRead founder David Rothman urges libraries to create a seamless ecosystem “encompassing everything from e-book standards …

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New Video: "Digital Visitors and Residents: What Motivates Engagement with the Digital Information Environment? An Update on Current Findings"

This 21-minute video features the latest results of this JISC-funded, collaborative pilot project between OCLC Research and the University of Oxford to investigate the theory of digital visitors and residents with students in the emerging educational s…

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New Report: "Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums. Part 2: Survey Analysis"

This report analyzes the results from a social metadata survey that focused on the motivations for creating a website, moderation policies, staffing and site management, technologies used, and criteria for assessing success.

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Posted on 16th January 2012Comments Off